The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall Summary
Clinton McFarland
Dorton
English 103
27 April 2010
Religious Symbolism In "The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall" Symbolism is something that many others use in their writing to give meanings without coming out and saying it. The dictionary states symbolism as “the art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations as artistic imitation or invention that is a method of revealing or suggesting immaterial, ideal, or otherwise intangible truth or states.” When authors do this it lets readers get different ideas as what they mean as they read the story, which makes them think a lot more as they read the story. This story has a lot of symbolism, most of it …show more content…
But when she sees the light towards the end of the story it is more enlightenment feeling. But on the other side when her visions are dark they mean chaos, when she talks about being left at the altar it is chaos and very sad and it has a dark feeling to it. But at the end of the story where she blows out the light that darkness is a comfortable darkness that wasn’t chaos but something that is nice. Katherine Porter uses many things in nature in the different visions that Granny has to hide some of the meaning she put in the story. When she says “A fog rose over the valley, she saw it marching across the creek swallowing the trees and moving up the hill like an army of ghosts” there are many things in there that make the sentence have a whole different meaning. Like I stated earlier fog means that you can’t see clearly and the valley means there is a change going on through your life. So she can’t see clearly as she is going through these changes in her life. The creek symbolizes her life and the trees represent strength and wisdom but as the fog moves across it her life and wisdom is burled. The people that
Dorton
English 103
27 April 2010
Religious Symbolism In "The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall" Symbolism is something that many others use in their writing to give meanings without coming out and saying it. The dictionary states symbolism as “the art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations as artistic imitation or invention that is a method of revealing or suggesting immaterial, ideal, or otherwise intangible truth or states.” When authors do this it lets readers get different ideas as what they mean as they read the story, which makes them think a lot more as they read the story. This story has a lot of symbolism, most of it …show more content…
But when she sees the light towards the end of the story it is more enlightenment feeling. But on the other side when her visions are dark they mean chaos, when she talks about being left at the altar it is chaos and very sad and it has a dark feeling to it. But at the end of the story where she blows out the light that darkness is a comfortable darkness that wasn’t chaos but something that is nice. Katherine Porter uses many things in nature in the different visions that Granny has to hide some of the meaning she put in the story. When she says “A fog rose over the valley, she saw it marching across the creek swallowing the trees and moving up the hill like an army of ghosts” there are many things in there that make the sentence have a whole different meaning. Like I stated earlier fog means that you can’t see clearly and the valley means there is a change going on through your life. So she can’t see clearly as she is going through these changes in her life. The creek symbolizes her life and the trees represent strength and wisdom but as the fog moves across it her life and wisdom is burled. The people that